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Updated: 8:21 AM EDT May 17, 2017

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As a scandal grows over alleged sharing of classified intelligence by President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin says he is willing to hand over a record of the meeting at the center of the controversy.

Speaking at a press conference Wednesday, Putin dismissed the allegations that Trump divulged information on the fight against the Islamic State to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in a White House meeting last week as "political schizophrenia."

Putin said that Russia is ready to provide Congress with a transcript of the talks "if the US administration finds it appropriate." He even joked that that he would reprimand Lavrov because "he hasn't shared those secrets with us."

The Russian leader continued to lash out at U.S. politicians whipping up what he described as "anti-Russian sentiment" for being either "stupid" or "dangerous." He initially found debates about Russia's meddling in U.S. politics as "funny" but said Moscow is now "concerned because it's hard to imagine what the people who produce such nonsense can come up with next."

Asked what he thinks of Trump presidency, Putin said it's up to the American people to judge but his performance can only be rated "only when he's allowed to work at full capacity," implying that someone is hampering Trump's efforts.